Not surprised. (Nov. 8 thread)
Trying to figure out the worst and most odious lawyer that Trump could nominate for AG, and I keep coming back to Giuliani. Anyone else?
Also, Trump’s supporters have been preparing a long time for this. Bondi’s AFPI has long planned ways to collect many scalps. Right now Trump’s appointments are amusingly bad, but once people start being hurt without due process not so funny any more.
I think outright killing of Americans will be minimal, but the innovation of “struggle session” developed during China’s cultural revolution does not seem remote. They have to do something at all those new private prisons and internment camps they plan to build, and you could combine it with some reality tv or wrestling formats.
Interestingly, the reporter of a Hong Kong-based political journal released the classified official statistics, according to which nearly two million Chinese were killed and another 125 million were either persecuted or “struggled against”(subjected to “struggle sessions”) as a result of the state-sponsored killings and atrocities committed during the Cultural Revolution (Cheng Min, 1996: 21-22).
